Powers, I think it’s just an oddly bulging eyebrow ridge. But I am also puzzled in the logic, or the tradition – – a firing squad doesn’t aim for the head, do they?

I liked this Nick G. one also, after a run of them (on GoComics) where I thought I might be missing the point with the comic isolated from the advice column.

I know that a plea of “no contest” is not exactly the counterpart of a jury verdict of “not proven”, but it is traditionally said that that verdict was available in Scottish courts, and both have a feeling of avoiding clear cut decision.

Garson O’Toole sourced the “lie will travel halfway around the earth…” quote back to at least 1821 with different but recognizable language, and the basic idea (without much language matching) back to at least 1710 (by Jonathan Swift).